A rogue process owned by me called com.apple.quicklookd.ThumbnailHelper was 
thinking unhappy thoughts so I sent it out to the corn field with a kill -9. 
Hasn’t returned. We’ll see how the system sleeps tonight.

-Carl

> On Nov 25, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Well, it's being scheduled by launchd, so you should be able to use a tool 
> like Lingon or Launch Control to see what jobs you have scheduled.  You can 
> disable any of the ones you suspect are causing the problem and reboot, and 
> see if the problem goes away or not.
> 
>> On Nov 25, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a MacPro Tower (MacPro6,1) running Sierra 10.12.6, no external 
>> devices connected. When I put it into sleep mode overnight, I can hear that 
>> every 4.5 minutes, the HDD spins up, there's a disk access, and then it 
>> spins down again. I don't like it spinning the HDD up & down all night.
>> 
>> Looking in the console logs (which has been made so very painful) I believe 
>> I've found the culprit:
>> 
>> Nov 25 03:57:22 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[3691]): 
>> Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to 
>> XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
>> Nov 25 04:01:57 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[3700]): 
>> Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to 
>> XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
>> Nov 25 04:04:56 syslogd[52]: ASL Sender Statistics
>> 
>> The above sequence repeats ad inifitum.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a clue what this is, and what it thinks it needs to do? 
>> 
>> -Carl
>> 
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